Posted on 10/26/2005 1:26:10 PM PDT by DoctorZIn
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Wipe Israel out, urges Iran's president
Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday openly called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and lashed out at Muslim nations who recognize the Jewish state.
Stefan Smith
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday openly called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and lashed out at Muslim nations who recognize the Jewish state.
"The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world," the president told a conference - The World without Zionism - in Teheran. "The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land."
Calling the situation an "historic war between the oppressor and the world of Islam," Ahmadinejad went on: "As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map." He was referring to Iran's revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
His comments were the first time in years that such a high-ranking Iranian official has called for Israel's eradication, though such slogans are still used regularly at rallies.
Addressing some 4,000 students gathered in an interior ministry conference hall, Ahmadinejad also called for Palestinian unity, resistance and "the annihilation of the Zionist regime."
His appearance at the conference drew chants of "Death to Israel," and Ahmadinejad quickly told students - all wearing black with green headbands - to shout the slogan louder. "The Islamic umma [community] will not allow its historic enemy to live in its heartland," said the president, an austere veteran of Iran's hardline Revolutionary Guards who took office in August after scoring a landslide win in a June presidential election.
"Anyone who signs a treaty which recognizes the entity of Israel means he has signed the surrender of the Muslim world," Ahmadinejad said, telling Muslim leaders who recognize Israel that they "face the wrath of their own people."
And he said of Israel's recent pullout from the Gaza Strip: "We should not settle for a piece of land."
His tone represents a dramatic change from that of former president Mohammad Khatami, whose favored topic was "dialogue among civilizations" and who led an effort to improve Iran's relations with the West.
Ahmadinejad instead spoke of an "historic war" between Islam and the West.
"It dates backs hundreds of years," he said. "Sometimes Islam has advanced. Sometimes nobody was winning. Unfortunately over the past 300 years, the world of Islam has been in retreat."
In Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom responded by saying that it is clear Iran is trying to develop atomic weapons, adding: "Iran is a clear and present danger." AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
- Iran Press News reported that Ahmadinejad mocked the West saying: the West is simply opposed to the nature of Islamic order; therefore when the nuclear issue is resolved, westerners will take issue with our human rights problems and when that's resolved, they will probably pick on us for animal rights abuse.... When the centrifuges are started up again, things will transform.
- Sky News reported that Tony Blair has warned Iran to stop supporting terrorism and abide by the rules over nuclear weapons.
- Iran Press News reported that several of the employees, professors and students of Azad University of Qazvin were arrested; they were charged with "establishing a network of corruption in a university."
- Iran Press News reported that the nurses in private wards are living under the poverty line.
- Iran Press News reported that the Islamic Judiciary has summoned the families of the Student political prisoners in order to "complete the investigations and present information on the Ministry of Intelligence and Security's prisoner list."
- Iran Press News reported that there is no news from political prisoner, Behrooz Javid-Tehrani, detained at Rejaiishahr prison.
- Iran Press News reported that while political prisoners of Rejaiishahr prison, visited with their families. The families of these prisoners called it "staged" and a ruse to prevent the two prisoners from taking their deserved furloughs.
- Iran Press News reported that Seyed Ahmad Seyed Seraajee Tabrizi blogger was sentenced to 1 year in prison by the appeals court.
- Iran Press News reported that 15 million people, equal to 21% of the population in Iran, suffer from some form of mental illness, mainly depression.
- Michael Rubin, The Middle East Forum argued that nowhere has engagement failed so starkly as with Europe's dialogue with Iran.
- Golnaz Esfandiari, Radio Free Europe examined Iran's struggle to influence the region.
- Sherrie Gossett and Monisha Bansal, CNSNews reported that at a Washington DC news conference conducted by self-described Iranian dissidents descended into chaos as audience members and two journalists accused the speakers of spreading disinformation and being agents of Iranian intelligence.
- Scotsman reported that a failure to halt Iran's ambitions to develop a nuclear bomb could lead other countries in the region to acquire nuclear weapons.
- Michael Adler, Agence France Presse reported that the United States and the European Union will hold off taking Iran before the UN Security Council.
- And finally, George Melloan, The Wall Street Journal reported on the ramifications of the UN report on the murder of Lebanese leader Rafik Hariri for Syria. PLUS we have found a copy of the restored unexpurgated version of the UN report.
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Go ahead, Israel, you know what to do.
Complete the trifecta: regime change Tehran and Pyongyang or expect catastrophe.
Shocking news. Who knew they thought this way? Israel should open a dialogue at the UN called: "Why do they hate us?"
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"The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor"
at least he was correct on one thing:
world oppressor = UN
Agreed, but the fact is, nobody's got the stomach to do it, sadly. We NEED to do it. Iran especially. I am so damn mad at the lack of action right now, it's not funny. I know Iraq needs to be settled. and thanks to the dimmis politicizing the war, we're paralyized. Israel can't wait, she gets hit once, it's a national catastrophe on the scale of the Russians launching a countervalue strike on us.
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Budget Deficit Balloons
Iran’s budget deficit grew by 70%, according to recent estimates. According to Iran Focus.com: “There has been a whopping 69 percent increase in Iran’s state budget deficit during the current year, according to an official government report. The report was based on estimates for the current Iranian calendar year, ending March 20, and the figure was expected to rise even further by the end of the year, the semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami wrote on Saturday. The sharp surge in the country’s annual deficit means that in the currently year the government will be lagging more than 71 trillion Rials – approximately 7.1 billion dollars. Last year, the state deficit figures were considerably lower, standing at 42 trillion Rials.”
What makes this an interesting figure is that “The widening deficit comes despite a large increase in revenue as a result of high oil prices on the international markets. “
Stock Market Tumbles
There are significant signs of a complete lack of confidence in the government from economic and financial circles. Iran Focus reported: “Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who took office in August, had promised that he would reduce state deficit and work to increase the national turnover as president. But the rising tensions in Iran’s external relations since the hard-liners’ power sweep in June have had a markedly negative impact on the economy. The Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) has been badly affected, dropping 20 percent since Ahmadinejad’s election in June. Some experts have put the value of capital flight since June at a staggering 200 billion dollars.”
Capital Flight Reported
$700 billion have left Iran since 1980, and it’s getting worse, as government officials and even clergymen are reportedly preparing for the day when they have to flee the country.
Starting in June, 2005, reports surfaced that the wealthy in Iran were having major concerns about the new president. And by October, reports of significant amounts of capital flight were appearing in reliable sources.
According to Geostrategy Direct, in a report by Bill Gertz: “Iran might be talking tough, but the word on the streets of Teheran is that prominent Iranians are running scared. Iranian businessmen are smuggling their assets out of the country, fearful of a U.S. attack that would topple the Iranian regime.”
According to Gertz: “Iranian officials report a massive outflow of capital, much of it to Central Asia and the Gulf. Iranians are emptying their bank accounts and establishing companies for the day when they need to flee their homeland because of an economic collapse or U.S. invasion. The figures being reported by Iranian regime officials are astounding. In September, Hashemi Shahraudi, director of the Higher Judiciary Council in Teheran, said Iranians have sent $700 billion abroad since 1980. Shahraudi said the capital flight has turned from a trickle to a flood over the past year.”
Gertz continued, suggesting that there is a growing consensus which marks a complete lack of confidence in the Iranian government and economy. “The picture presented by Shahraudi and other officials portray an Iranian businessman without any trust in the regime. Iranians have established more than 10,000 companies in the UAE port of Dubai. Thousands of other companies have been established in neighboring Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey.”
The Iranian government is in full attack and damage control mode. “Already, Teheran has ordered government-owned banks to ban loans of more than 300 million riyals, or about $45,000. Teheran's fear is that private companies will borrow from banks to buy dollars and euros. Iranian businessmen are willing to invest in their native country only when Teheran pledges not to impose its laws. So, 3,500 Iranian companies operate in so-called free trade zones on the islands of Kish and Qeshm in the Gulf. In all of Iran, 18,000 private companies are registered with the Finance Ministry for tax purposes. Officials acknowledge that a key reason many others refuse to register their businesses is fear of government expropriation.”
Here is the kicker. “What officials don't say is that senior members of the Teheran regime own many of these offshore and foreign-based companies. Indeed, the trend seen by Iranian and foreign sources is that senior Iranian officials, regime figures and even clergy are preparing a nest egg abroad just in case.
Al Qaeda Roams Freely In Iran
The 9/11 Commission acknowledged that prior to 9/11, several of the suicide highjackers passed through Iran. There have been numerous reports that suggest a potential linkage between elements in Iran’s elite military corps, the Republican Guard, and Al-Qaeda, as well as other groups labeled as terrorists, including Hezbollah.
But, there is more recent information along those lines. According to Stratfor.com: in an article that “will be published in Cicero's November issue, cites unidentified Western intelligence sources as claiming that the free-ranging jihadists hail from Egypt, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia and Europe. The 25 reportedly include three sons of Osama bin Laden -- Saad, Mohammad and Othman -- along with al Qaeda spokesman Suleiman Abu Ghaith. Reportedly, the al Qaeda members are living in houses owned by the country's elite military unit, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which also is providing them with logistical assistance and military training. Cicero quotes one intelligence source as saying, ["This is not incarceration or house arrest," because "they can move around as they please."]
Shock and awe, paging Shock and awe:
Green headband army...
Al Gore:...."Bill.......you just drove past the Gulag turnoff"!
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